In 2008 Mark Mitchell visited and reported from Tinui in the Wairarapa region of the North Island in New Zealand. The ABC Broadcasting recognized the first service was held in 1916.

A central Auckland street came to a standstill today as a re-enactment of Kiwi men away at war in 1915 played out.

Hundreds of descendants of soldiers who fought at Gallipoli have attended a private viewing of an exhibition at Te Papa in Wellington which commemorates those involved in the war. "Gallipoli: The scale of our war" depicts monuments of seven soldiers and a nurse in moments frozen in time. Each work is 2.4 times human scale.

The first Kiwi ANZAC of the year in 2010 Lt Col) John Masters ONZM MC JP reminds us that the men and women who served in combat 'knew things we didn't know' and that being an ANZAC means comradeship, courage, commitment, and companionship. nzherald.co.nz also asked what it means to you and who do you remember?

Rare film archive from Gallipoli during WWI has been restored by Sir Peter Jackson. This film was projected onto the side of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2009.

I'm singing for New Zealand says Rebecca Nelson who will sing our national anthem at Gallipoli. The NZ Navy band singer started as a street singer and was spotted and asked to join the band. On ANZAC day she will wear her great uncles WW1 medals who served and fell in Belgium, having sung before All Blacks test before, she says this is a step up to be on the world stage.

Anzac Day has already been marked by National Guard reserves in Oregon, in recognition of the ties formed during World War II.

“Gallipoli: The scale of our war” depicts monuments of seven soldiers and a nurse in moments frozen in time.

White crosses representing the fallen ANZAC nurses and soldiers of WW1 are displayed at the Auckland War Memorial Museum forming a field of remembrance.

Garibaldi Bitossi spent seven months in the living hell that was Gallipoli. Yet the Hunterville veteran never wore his medals, nor attended Anzac Day commemorations.

Sir Peter Jackson has re-created his most epic battle scene yet, with a giant Gallipoli diorama.

85: Major was one of the "A" Battery commanders when a 101-gun royal salute in Auckland's Albert Park backfired in June 1911, injuring four.

The Anzacs fought for seven months on the beaches and in the trenches of Gallipoli's Sari Bair range.

Victoria police said the medals were located yesterday by Australia Post, and it appeared they had not been stolen.

A recent online campaign led by Woolworths Australia has caused outrage among customers, who accused the supermarket giant for cashing in on Anzac Day.

While the doomed World War I escapade needlessly cost tens of thousands of lives, Gallipoli helped forge the early identity of the Maori in fledgling NZ.

A giant poppy made up of 59,000 red discs - one for each of the New Zealanders killed or wounded in World War I - will begin to take shape.

James Waddell is one of New Zealand's most decorated military heroes - but few have heard much about him.

100 years on from the beginning of World War One, the Torpedo Bay Naval Museum in Auckland chose a theatrical way of commemorating the fallen. Geoff Allen's 'Sister Anzac' told the herstory of the hospital ship 'Maheno' and the nurses who served aboard.

Sir Tony Robinson uncovers New Zealand ANZAC history while filming his television series retelling kiwi war stories to commemorate the 100 years since World War One.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make his second official visit to New Zealand next week to take part in the Anzac centenary commemorations.

A week of official events marking the centenary of the Gallipoli landings begins on Saturday with the opening of national war memorial park, the Government announced today.

Herbert A. Knight, a young man who had shown great promise in his hometown of Wanganui, was shot down on May 8, 1915. Despite having already spent that day clambering around the hills at Gallipoli carrying ammunition up to the frontlines, he had volunteered to go out and bury a mule carcass. My great-great-uncle was just 20 years old when a Turkish sniper shot him through the heart. Like so many young men killed in World War I, he was among the cream of his generation.

Herbert A. Knight, a young man who had shown great promise in his hometown of Wanganui, was shot down on May 8, 1915.

My great-great-uncle Francis Woodhouse was just 17 when he enlisted to go to war. I bet if he had the luxury of regrets, that would have been his biggest, writes Anna Leask.

Commemorating the centenary of the Gallipoli landing, Neil Finn and Jim Carter have re-recorded "Blue Smoke", composed by Ruru Karaitiana in 1940. Jim Carter played steel guitar on the 1948 recording with singer Pixie Williams.

The Returned and Services Association says it cannot afford to wait until after the centenary of Anzac Day this month to take its fight against proposed changes to the country's flag.

Police on both sides of the Tasman are hunting a thief who pinched 12 medals awarded to a Kiwi Anzac who served at Gallipoli.